The approved abstracts will be incorporated into and become part of a series of respective white papers. The drafting of these papers will be handled and coordinated by the session co-chairs.

The oral presentations and discussions will be arranged according to the following themes:

• Wave Retrievals
• Near Surface Wind Retrievals and detection of Extremes
• Doppler Shift Retrievals
• Sea Ice Retrievals
• Sensor Synergy
• Methodology and Techniques
• Future Missions
• Applications (Oil Spill, Ship Detection, etc)

For each of these themes we will have a sequence of plenary sessions that will last for up to 105 minutes and include:

• Keynote presentations (~ 1 hour)
• Extended theme discussions (~ 45 minutes immediately after each keynote presentation)

For the plenaries we kindly ask you to prepare 4-6 slides using the following structure:

• Key objectives
• Innovation (new findings and achievements)
• Remaining knowledge gaps and deficiencies
• Outlook and recommendation

The slides will be aggregated into the respective keynote presentations. Each author will soon be contacted by the session co-chairs for more details.

Following the sequence of the plenary sessions we will break into parallel theme panels to further discuss innovative methods, gaps and future needs including calibration/validation issues (~ 6 hours). You are welcome to prepare additional material for these panel meetings. Each panel will then be invited to report in plenary on the theme discussion and outcome.